variation — perhaps characteristic of very young birds _ of 
the Jay-like cry that I hear every autumn at Lake Umbagog. I 
suspect tnat by means of this C8-ll it finally a,ttracted the 
attention of one of its parehts for early one morning a nu?|iber 
of Crows began making a great outcry in the oaks over the cage 
and Gilbert, who v;ent out to investig3.te the cause of the dis¬ 
turbance, found them mabbing a large Owl Y/liich sailed off 
through the trees as he approached. 
On June 14th, Gilbert, by my orders, liberated the 
young Owl in Prescott’s pines v/hich are within about five 
hundred yards of the place where it was born. It via.s unable to 
fly and was left sitting on the ground under the trees near the 
v/ood road at the foot of the hill. During the remainder of the 
week Gilbert visited and fed the bird daily. It shifted its 
position several times and finally crossed the iK)ad but no one 
of these Journeys v/as more than a few rodsrin length and the bird 
v/as a.lways found either on the ground or on a, stump or log. 
I directed my steps towards Prescott’s pines this 
evening for the express purpose of looking up the young Ov/l 
a,nd as I approa.ched the place I sa.w something yellowish which 
I took to be the bird, but which proved to be a sheet of brov/n 
paper. A moment later I heard, some Jays screaming excitedly on 
the hillside about sixty yards off. Walking quietly along the 
path I came nea.rly under them and scrutinizing closely the trees 
around me I at length made out the form of a Great Horned Owl 
f 
perched on the topmost spray of a green end vigorous young pine, 
sitting erect and motionless, gazing off over the woods towards 
